[Vnbiz] [vbf]: VBF Hoang Anh Tuan - Big Hug

[Tran Dinh Hoanh]

Dear Sister Thuy Lan & CACC,

Thanks for the encouraging note, Lan.  Your note energizes me greatly.
 In addition to being so caring, you are also truly a master in
communication.  With such skill, it is going to be very difficult for
you to fail in anything that you put you mind to.  I am so proud to be
able to hang out with you, Lan, and with all the wonderful
brothers/sisters in this family.

I think sharing personal success/failure is a wonderful idea.  I do
encourage everyone to do that.  That is how we can enrich each other.
Of course, it is never easy to talk about ourselves.  We all have this
uneasiness about talking about ourselves.  But if we care about our
brothers/sisters, we should try to share our experience with them.
Keeping a low profile, while it may be comfortable, may not be the
best way to share.

In any event, since you are ready to attack life with full force, I'd
like to share some thoughts on success:

1.  Most important thing:  Follow your heart.  Go where your heart is.
 You like marketing.  But marketing what?  If you don't like marketing
shoes, don't do it, even if they may pay you well.  Go where your
heart is.  Search your heart to find out what your heart wants to
market.

Of course, since life is not perfect, we usually get what we don't
really want.  Fine, Just work with what you have now, but constantly
search your heart and move in the direction your heart longs for.

2.  Just do it.  True experience comes from our own experience.
Listening to others' experience helps a little, but it is really very
little.  A boxer may listen to his teacher's experience, but it really
means very little.  The only way he may become good is walking into
the ring and getting his nose punched bloodily a couple of times.  No
other way.

3.  Be the best you can.  Don't do a half baked job.  Take your job as
an expression of yourself.  You want to show the world your best look.

4. If you are in the ring, expect that you may be knocked around
sometimes, or may even be knocked down to the floor.   No big deal.
Just get up and continue fighting.

So, aim to win, but don't be so uptight about losing.  Actually, when
you are young and don't have a bunch of kids to feed, you are free to
lose.  So if you want to open a business, just do it, and don't worry
much about going bankrupt.

The truth is:  A strong determination coupled with a calm attitude is
a very good formula to winning.

Hope you find these helpful, Thuy Lan.

Great day, Thuy Lan and all.

Hoanh
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On 7/4/06, LanT <trieuthuylan at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi anh Tuan and CACE,
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> I've read the article about you several times :) As a student who is about
> to graduate and manage my own life, I do like reading stories about young
> and successful Vietnamese (there have been a series on Tuoi Tre, recently).
> The articles encourage and inspire me a lot,  and I know many young Vnese
> will share my feeling. I hope those students and recent graduates in VnBiz
> will have more chance to read CACE's stories, not only from our magazines,
> but from this mailling list also :)  I really appreciate anh Hoanh and other
> CACE's advices and lessons I've got from VnBiz since I joined you.The
> community of students and recent graduates here are lucky, aren't we? :-)
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> Anh Tuan, could you tell me a little more about the tasks of a marketing
> director for Microsoft? I am interested in marketing field and choosing it
> as my future career and I have a great deal of questions about this job :)
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> Anh Hoanh, how do you think about the idea of speading stories of successes
> (or of failures :P, failures do help us much) of our VNBiz ACE? I know that
> many of us dont like to talk about ourselves but the more we share, the more
> we have, right :D?
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> Thanks & best regards,
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> Lan

-- 
Tran Dinh Hoanh, LLB, JD
Attorney of Law
Washington DC